decontamination

See also: décontamination

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːkənˌtæmɪˈneɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

decontamination (plural decontaminations)

1. The process of removing contamination, particularly the cleaning off of dangerous materials.

Related terms

• contamination
• decontaminate

Translations

process of removing contamination

• Asturian: descontaminación f
• Catalan: descontaminació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: puhdistus (fi), vaarallisten aineiden poisto puhdistamalla, dekontaminaatio, dekontaminointi
• French: décontamination (fr) f
• Galician: descontaminación f
• German: Dekontamination (de) f
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: decontaminazione f
• Japanese: 除染 (ja) (じょせん, josen)
• Polish: dekontaminacja f, odkażanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: descontaminação f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: обеззара́живание (ru) n (obezzaráživanije), деконтамина́ция (ru) f (dekontaminácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: деконтаминација f

  Roman: dekontaminacija (sh) f

• Spanish: descontaminación (es) f
• Ukrainian: знезара́ження n (znezarážennja)